--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> sparaig wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
> >   
> >> jim_flanegin wrote:
> >>     
> >>> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
> >>> <snip>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Sounds like the Maharishi Gulag program.  I think 60 Minutes might 
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> want 
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> to do a story.
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> There is a unique feature here in Santa Clara, California where I 
> >>> live; a convent pretty much in the center of town, surrounded by adobe 
> >>> walls, about ten feet in height, the grounds sheltered by palms and a 
> >>> large grove of olive trees. There is a long driveway of about 75 yards 
> >>> to the main building, and although I have passed it many times, I've 
> >>> never been able to see anyone within the grounds. No windows are 
> >>> visible from the outside either. It has been around for about one 
> >>> hundred years. Poor bastards.
> >>>       
> >> I have no problem with the privacy of ashrams, monasteries, or 
> >> convents.  But those aren't prisons.  People can still usually come and 
> >> go.  This just adds to the cultist reputation of the TM movement.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Perhaps, but there is an issue with what visa was obtained for all these 
> > guys. What 
kind of 
> > commitments did the TMO have to make to get the visas for hundreds 
> > (thousands?) of 
> > unemployable young men to come to the country for 2 years?
> I would highly doubt that confinement was part of the commitments.  If 
> so it will make an issue to alert progressive leaders about.
>

Are the young men actually confined?


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